ABSTRACT
Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782) Exemplifies the eighteenth-century composer par excellence. Associated with the main European musical centers of the third quarter of the eighteenth century—Berlin, Bologna, Milan, London, Paris, and Mannheim—he studied with the major composers of his time, including his brother, C. P. E. Bach, and the distin-guished music theorist Padre Giovanni Battista Martini (1706–1784). While in Milan, serving as cathedral organist, Bach met the city's leading symphonic composer, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, whose minuet finales and textural arrangements of "two-line themes" served as models for his own works.
